sharmila wrote:http://blog.dailystuff.nl/2011/12/debian-wheezy-and-gnome-3-2/ I understand from this link that Gnome 3.2 has arrived in debian testing. Soooooooo looking forward to seeing Cinnamon in LMDE. Can we expect it soon now? Have been pining away for months

Hi viking777, Congrats on becoming moderator Saw it on the other thread. 3070 posts! My contribution to mint is nowhere near, probably other than introducing those I know to Mint. Way to go!

As for Gnome 3.2, so yeah, maybe I should just stop thinking abt it. Like someone I know says, Expectation creates frustration and pain. Maybe, its what we have to pay for the stability we get. Thanks anyway.

sharmila wrote:Hi viking777, Congrats on becoming moderator Saw it on the other thread. 3070 posts! My contribution to mint is nowhere near, probably other than introducing those I know to Mint. Way to go!

As for Gnome 3.2, so yeah, maybe I should just stop thinking abt it. Like someone I know says, Expectation creates frustration and pain. Maybe, its what we have to pay for the stability we get. Thanks anyway.

Thanks sharmila - those posts stretch back over quite a few years!

Btw I don't know if you read that thread before or after GeneC added his workround to it. If you want shell 3.2 right now then have a look at it again, his method is simple to use and it works, it has made me a very happy Lmde user again!

Quite a lot of people care about gnome-shell 3.2 actually, myself included, it is a huge improvement over 3.0 (because of the number of extension available for it) but I know it is not everybody's cup of tea and I understand your frustration.

As to the second part of your question, this has been debated by others at length and answered by Clem himself. There will be no Update Pack 4 until Gnome-shell3.2 enters testing (and even after that it will take a while to prepare it). He is absolutely adamant about this, he has even closed threads that continued to discuss it after he had made his explanation. Given that strength of feeling, it is not likely that you are going to change his mind for him!

His suggestion to those who want to update certain programs is to do it by either downloading the updates required from packages.debian.org or better still (because the previous method may involve you in dependency problems) just add the sources.list for debian testing to your existing list, update using the package manager - synaptic, pick the packages you want to upgrade and then remove the line again (or comment it out in case you want to use the same method in the future).

Well someone should tell whoever puts the message to the world about it on the blog then!! :

LMDE 201109 Gnome

The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 201109 with updated ISOs for Gnome and Xfce.HighlightsLMDE in brief

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.

This has been my only gripe with Mint & I will keep telling people until it is fixed! Clem can do what he wants with LMDE, it is his distro. I am not and will not say otherwise, BUT, he has a moral obligation at least to be consistent between how he portrays the distro to the public and how he runs it. I get annoyed because it is not him (or you prime supporters) that has to deal with (in this case) over 150 people who came to use it, got me to install & support it and then were totally disillusioned at best to find he turned it into something that did not give them primarily what they were after - a rolling Debian-based system with Mint enhancements.

I know all the repo options discussed in numerous threads, none of which leave you with an essentially Mint system anymore by the way, and I can ( and have) moved them all off to their preferred options but my point is, Clem is not the only one with a heavy workload around here (unpaid I might add) and I get annoyed about this. Clem has every right to run Mint the way he likes but others surely have every right to tell him when they think he has made a mistake.

With some judicious use of AptOnCd, some preferences pinning and a few config scripts, LMDE ( Xfce in particular) is still quite a useful installer for Debian Sid systems & that's its primary use here, but LMDE as advertised does not exist.

rhodry.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain.